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Presentations

Jennifer Banning, FCS, presented The Humble Feed-Sack Wasn’t Always So Humble at the Illinois Association for Family and Consumer Sciences annual conference in Chicago.

Sesha Kethineni, CJS, presented The Right to Participation of Children in Conflict with the Law in India and Child Sex Trafficking in India at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Toronto, Canada, and The Right to Participation of Children in Conflict with Law in India and the United States at the Oxford Round Table in Oxford, England.

Publications

Yoon Jin Ma, FCS, wrote Self-concept and Decision-making Styles: Comparison Between Korean and American Young Consumers, which was published in the Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, Vol. 15.

Cara Rabe-Hemp, CJS, wrote The Career Trajectories of Female Police Executives, which was published in Women and Justice: Is it a Crime?.  Rabe-Hemp and Dawn Beichner, CJS, wrote An Analysis of Advertisements: A Lens for Viewing the Social Exclusion of Women in Police Imagery, which was published in Women and Criminal Justice, Vol. 21.

 

 

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Publications

Elizabeth Skinner, C&I, co-edited Grow Your Own Teachers: Grassroots Change for Teacher Education, which was published by Teachers College Press.  Skinner also wrote Amalia’s Quest: From Parent Volunteer to Public School Teacher and Rethinking Teacher Preparation, which were included in the book.

 

 

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Maureen Blair, UHS, presented Effective Decision Making at the Great Lakes Association of College and University Housing Officers Professional Development Institute in Brookston, Ind.

 

 

 

 

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Honors/Awards

Laura Kennedy, WGLT, received a Best Light Feature second place award from the Illinois Associated Press for Grape Stomp.

Willis Kern, WGLT, won a Best Sports award from the Illinois Associated Press for his story of the debut of the Corn Crib baseball stadium.

Charlie Schlenker, WGLT, received a Best Reporter award and a Best Newswriter award from the Illinois Associated Press. Schlenker’s Miracle League story received a Best Sports second place award.

The WGLT News Department received the Best Series/Documentary award from the Illinois Associated Press for Shifting Gears.

Joseph Smaldino, CSD, received the Larry Mauldin Award for Excellence in Education from Beltone at the AudiologyNOW! convention in Chicago.

 

 

 

Presentations

Lindsay Bondurant and Joseph Smaldino, CSD, presented Effects of a Hearing Conservation Program on Attitudes of Drum Corps Percussionists at the annual hearing conference of the National Hearing Conservation Association in Phoenix, Ariz., and Bondurant presented The Roots of Academic Underachievement Prediction from Early Difficulties with Self-Regulation at the bi-annual conference of the Society for Research in Child Development in Montreal, Canada.

Gary Cates, PSY, presented A Model for RTI in Math and What To Do with the Students Who are Still Not Responding at the annual conference of Illinois School Psychology Association in East Peoria. He also presented Relationships Between Mathematics Anxiety, Math Skill Performance and Math Avoidance, Contextual Effects: Rethinking Sight Word Instruction for Struggling Readers, Using Mathematics Fluency to Predict Student Choice for Academic Tasks, Statewide RTI Implementation: Final Report of Project Outcomes and Impact, Advanced Workshop on Data Based Decision Making in RTI Schools and Introductory Workshop on Data Based Decision Making in RTI Schools at the National Association of School Psychologists annual conference in San Francisco, Calif.

Publications

Lindsay Bondurant and Joseph Smaldino, CSD, wrote Three-Year-Old with Mixed Hearing Loss, which was published in Pediatric Audiology Casebook.

Joseph Casto and Rachel Bowden, BSC, co-authored Embryonic Modulation of Maternal Steroids in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), which was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 278.

Gary Cates, PSY, co-authored Implementation Guidelines: The Essential Elements of Matrices and The Essential Elements Matrices: Is RTI a Set of Interrelated or Independent Elements?, which were published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Practices in the Schools, Vol. 12, and with Mark Swerdlik, PSY, Effective RTI Training and Practice: Helping School and District Teams Improve Academic Performance and Social Behavior, which was published by Research Press.

Susan Kalter, ENG, wrote A Savagist Abroad: Anti-Colonial Theory and the Quiet Violence in Twain’s Western Oeuvre, which was published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 52.

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Presentations

Deb Alley, THE, was a guest artist and directed King Lear as part of the Swine Palace season at Louisiana State University.

Angelo Favis, MUS, taught a master class and gave a recital at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., and at Millikin University. Favis is conducting the Illinois State University Guitar Ensemble at the Mid-America Guitar Ensemble Festival in New Lenox and serving as an evaluator for the ensemble performances at the festival.

Tim Fredstrom, MUS, was the guest choral conductor for the North Central Illinois Conference Music Festival in Mendota.

Kimberly McCord, MUS, presented Jazz in General Music Part I & II and Advocating for Special Needs Students in the Music Classroom: A Panel Discussion of Teachers, Parents, Attorneys and Researchers at the New Jersey Music Educators Association conference in East Brunswick, N.J., and Collaborate for Assessment and Blending Electronic Instruments into the Orff Instrumentation at the Illinois Music Educators Association conference in Peoria.

Sarah Smelser, ART, was in a two-person exhibition, Eccentric Abstraction, at the Quincy Art Center in Quincy, and was a visiting artist at the University of Wyoming at Laramie at which she gave a public lecture and had an exhibition of new work there in Gallery 211.

 

Publications

Tim Fredstrom, MUS, wrote A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words: Promoting Choral Artistry Through Presentation Technology, which was published in the Choral Journal, Vol. 51.

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Presentations

Yayuan Ren, FIL, presented Do Publicly-Traded Property-Casualty Insurer Cater to the Stock Market? at the Western Risk and Insurance Association annual meeting in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Publications

John Bantham, MQM, wrote An Exploratory Study of Satisfaction in Buyer-Seller Partnerships, which was included in the Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Complaining Behavior, Vol. 23.

 

 

Yayuan Ren, FIL, co-authored Do Underwriting Cycles Affect Property/Casualty Insurer Investment Risk-taking? Stock vs. Mutual Insurers, which was published in the Journal of Insurance Regulation, Vol. 31.